Quantization of the black hole area as quantization of the angular momentum component

Kostyantyn Ropotenko
Phys. Rev. D 80, 044022 – Published 24 August 2009

Abstract

In transforming from Schwarzschild to Euclidean Rindler coordinates the Schwarzschild time transforms to a periodic angle. As is well-known, this allows one to introduce the Hawking temperature and is an origin of black hole thermodynamics. On the other hand, according to quantum mechanics this angle is conjugate to the z component of the angular momentum. From the commutation relation and quantization condition for the angular momentum component it is found that the area of the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole is quantized with the quantum ΔA=8πlP2. It is shown that this conclusion is also valid for a generic Kerr-Newman black hole.

  • Received 17 June 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.044022

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Kostyantyn Ropotenko*

  • State Administration of Communications, Ministry of Transport and Communications of Ukraine, 22, Khreschatyk, 01001, Kyiv, Ukraine

  • *ro@stc.gov.ua

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Vol. 80, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2009

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